Spoon-rest



(No Model.)

G. W. OLESON.

SPOON REST.

Patented Mar. 141185 32 fl'iinessek:

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. OLESON, OF LOMBARD, ILLINOIS.

SPOON-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,013, dated March 14, 1882.

Application filed August 17, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. Onnson, residing at Lombard, in the county of DuPage and State oflllinois, and a citizen oftheUnited States, have invented a. new and useful lmprovement in Spoon-Rests, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying.drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 represents a blank from which the device is formed. Fig.4 shows the device in use.

It is common to use a spoon while cooking many articles. It is not desirable to leave the spoon constantly in the kettle or other vessel, and it isinconvenient to removethe same therefrom every time that the spoon is used.

Heretofore a knife-rest for butter-dishes has been composed of a metal plate bent at one end to clasp the edge of the dish, and its other end bent to a vertical position, a separate plate being welded or soldered to the metal plate in a position parallel to the vertically-bent portion of the latter to form two jaws for grasping between them a knife. Such construction renders it necessary to make the knife-rest of separate pieces and afterward joining or connecting them together,\vhich not only increases the cost of their production, butthe attached jaw is liable to be broken otfif subject to undue strain.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of this class of devices, whereby they are made from a single piece of metal, and consequently the expense of manufacturing them is reduced, while at the same time their construction is such as to avoid the possibility of injuring them by placing the fork therein.

To this end my invention consists in the construction of rest which I will now proceed to describe in detail, afterward pointing out the improvements in the claim.

(No model.)

form. In manufacturing 1 first cut in the blank B a slot, 0, having each end enlarged.

To provide for kettles or dishes which have a wire or other enlargement at the edge, I stamp in one arm-of the spoon-rest a groove, b. Then I bend the blank at the center,bringing the two arms 0 (1 together, or nearly so, as shownin Fig. 2, which leaves an open slot at thetop oftherest,which should belarge enough to receive edgewise the small partof a spoon handle near the bowl.

In use the spoon-rest is to be placed upon the edge of a kettle or other vessel, where it will be held by the spring-arms 0 cl.

That part of the handle ofa spoon near the bowl can be placed in the slot cedgewise, and, being turned partly around in the enlarged end of the slot,\vill be held there when released from the hand. If the handle be round near the bowl, the spoon can still beheld in the rest by bringing an enlarged part of the bandle into the enlargement at the end of the slot 0. When the spoon is held in the rest, as described, the bowl will be over the kettle or other vessel which will receive the drippings from the spoon.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

A spoon-rest consisting of a single plate of metal, provided within its body portion, at or near the center thereof, with a longitudinal slot, said plate being doubled or folded upon itself, as described, to form two spring-aims, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHAS- W. ()LESON.

Witnesses:

HENRY S. HAYDEN, ALFRED H. ANDREWS. 

